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Do you guys ever find…

Do you guys ever find that this follow button doesn’t work? Because often I’ll click it, see the green checkmark, then exit the site, but later won’t see it listed in my follow list. So I’ll go back to the site (by going through my brower’s history) and see that it’s completely unchecked again.
Is this just me or…..?

I haven’t had this issue exactly, but I was having an issue with Chrome and some plugin that wasn’t working properly. Chrome wasn’t letting me like or comment. Have you experienced this in another browser as well?

I think it might be to do with whether a blog is self-hosted. Mine is, and people constantly keep resubscribing to me. 🙂

I think what happens is that you can only see the posts from a self-hosted blog when you’re a follower – it won’t come up in tag search or anything. But you can see the associated WP.com account, content from there will come up if you do a search for a tag, etc. You stumble upon it, you like it, you hit the follow button. The subscription is then transferred to the real blog (because that’s where the posts are actually coming from) and as a consequence you no longer follow the WP.com account. Some time later you come across the WP.com account again, you think ‘hang on, I thought I subscribed to this’, conclude you forgot to hit the follow button, whatever, so you subscribe again. The subscription then is transferred to the real blog again and once again you no longer follow the WP.com account. 🙂

I had somebody who subscribed to me at least 7 or 8 times in a row… It made me worried that they couldn’t see the posts in their Reader and conducted an experiment with the help of a couple of people from here to check that the connection worked properly. 🙂

If you can see the feed from the blog in your Reader when you look under Blogs I Follow, then you’re subscribing to that blog. You can have a look at my actual blog and its associated WP.com account to see how they’re different if that’s any help. The WP.com account is no different from my blog’s Facebook page – it’s just a bundle of links.